Stephen Hawking Releases Answers To Reddit AMA

The renowned genius Stephen Hawking posted his responses for his first-ever Reddit AMA on Thursday talking about technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and several other topics. The AMA was part of #maketechhuman, a conversation about technology’s role in our world, societies and lives. Hawking joined the discussion after an open letter emphasized on the human factor of developing artificial intelligence. According to a statement, more than 9,000 comments were submitted to the AMA thread after it was opened in July. Bulk of comments made it the third-largest AMA ever. Hawking on his viewpoints of media and ‘evil AI’, said media often misrepresent what is actually being said. The real risk with AI is not malice but competence, he said. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at meeting its goals,…